The man who killed 78 million people in China by his strict totalitarian policies, starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions wore a simple Zhongshan suit 🗿🍷
You are right, every year when People's Republic of China is celebrating national founding day on October 1st, Sun Yat sen's gaint profile picture will be demonstrated in Tian-An-men square.
Oh Sun Yat-sen did a good job at making a modernized traditional dress. It is very distinct, but also fits in quite well with western fashions of the time.
There's something i am missing here. Isn't Taiwan presented in the west as a separated part of china that has nothinggggggg to do with Chinese history whatsoever. So why they praise the man who's literally called "the father of china" it's weird tbh.
@@Alfyannn But I mean, you just said that this image is "presented in the West", so it's not weird if the Taiwanese respected him as their founding father despite this. The West does this mainly to delegitimize the PRC's claim to the island, but in truth, most of the people on the island now are descendants of the ROC people who fled there after the civil war
In Africa it was popularised by Zambia's first President Kenneth Kaunda. In most African countries they now call it the KK suit and particularly the short-sleeved version.
Don't alienate the isolationists in their own jurisdiction. And don't polarize them against Africa. What if they read that? Come on. Manners aren't a compromise/concession. Act your age. It's against the multipolar world thing which China's doing now, and also against a random group which you targeted for no reason. @@tentwoXII
it's important not to neglect the ideological role of socialism in the formalisation and spread of this dress-in the work of both sun yat-sen and mao tse-tung. compare to e.g. the second french revolution post-1793 and the formalised sense of dress that occurred as a rejection of royal aesthetics; the cultural revolution was instrumental in this way
Wow, not wearing expensive clothes to show you arent above the common man. Such a wild idea. In Britain, they instead love to be stepped on by people who openly claim to be above them, with clothes and ceremonies that cost millions of tax-pounds.
@@robinrehlinghaus1944 As a Brit, they kinda have a point. UK’s royals and aristocrats are somewhat parasitic. Not that the CCP leadership are any better
@@robinrehlinghaus1944 As a Brit, they kinda have a point. UK’s royals and aristocrats are somewhat parasitic. Not that the C C P leadership are any better
@@robinrehlinghaus1944 As a Brit, they kinda have a point. UK’s royals and aristocrats are somewhat parasitic. Not that China’s party leadership are any better
This is super poorly researched..the unfolded collar is that of the youth suit 青年装, Zhongshan suit has always had a folded down collar. Sun yat-sen designed the suit himself with the number of pockets and buttons carrying significant meanings from his San min principles, namely 5 buttons representing 五权宪法，4 pockets representing 礼义廉耻 and so on. Mao actually intentionally kept the design unchanged because he wanted to be seen as the legitimate successor to Sun
Interesting how the DPRK originally used a Koreanized reading of the original Chinese term 中山裝 (pronounced 중산복/Jungsanbok in Korean), but later made an effort to mildly desinicize it with the substitutional term 인민복/inminbok ( _hanja_ :人民服) "The people's outfit", for what it's worth.
I don't know for anywhere else in the world, but in french we specifically know and call the Mao suit's collar as "Mao collar" ("col Mao"), and sometimes we use it in sewing (it has a very vintage look, a bit reminiscent of the Claudine collar).
Many Chinese people in mainland China wore a variation of that suit when I visited in 1979. They had white, dark blue, grey & red so my family was a stand out when we visited.
We have a variation of this suit in Algiers Algeria, we call it Shanghai, in reference of the Chineses merchants who introduced it in Algiers in the 1900 , mostly worn by old fishermans
in Chinese history education ，we learned that sun is the father infact.we all know that.and there are so many zhongshan roads and hospitals In mainland.a city named zhongshan and a important university in guangzhou named zhongshan university.
To be fair, the suit's peak popularity was during Mao era where virtually almost all Chinese wear that. Which before his era, Chinese formal wear still divided between this, western suit, and old Qing era dress.
😂 There is so much mythology around the Zhongshan suit, but it was originally just a copy of the Prussian officers tunic, worn by Sun without the belt and decorations.
this is wrong. Mao's suit is a stalinka, modelled after Stalin's grey-green pseudo military garb. as you noted by the collar, the stalinka and the zhongshan zhaung are distinct.
I really wish he had chosen to retain more of the traditional Chinese aesthetic, because the boxy cut of the garment combined with the fairly heavy weight and lack of ornamentation makes it deeply unflattering. Particularly when they decided to add the western folded collar but still insisted on it being an outer garment that didn't need the embellishment of a tie. China has so many lovely historical garments that could be easily adapted into wear with trousers and somehow Mao ended up in THAT. I am aghast at how poor his fashion sense was.
From Wikipedia: The four pockets are said to represent the Four Virtues of propriety, justice, honesty, and shame; and the five buttons the branches of China's former government (Executive, Legislative, Judicial, Examination, Control)
I always thought of Mao’s jacket as intending to be like a Dickie’s work jacket, because you know, communism. Really like it on Sun, without the folded down collar. I wonder why they’ve adopted western suits more recently. Not that I care what they do, but watching this I’m like “man, don’t cave to the West; don’t sell out!”
God westerners need to understand Sun-Yat-Sen was and is well respected in the PRC in fact the Kuomintang is still in the mainland under the name Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang or ‘RCCK’
